“I must say that the man we call ‘modern,’ the man who is aware of his immediate present, is by no means the average man. He is rather the man who stands upon a peak, or at the edge of the world, the abyss of the future before him, above him the heavens, and below him the whole of mankind with a history that disappears in primeval mists… it must be understood that the mere fact of living in the present does not make a modern man, for in that case, everyone at present alive would be so. He alone is modern man who is fully conscious of the present.
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The man whom we can with justice call ‘modern’ is solitary. Every step he takes toward a fuller consciousness of the present removes him further from the masses of men—from submersion in a common unconsciousness. Every step forward means an act of tearing himself loose from that all-embracing, pristine unconsciousness which claims the bulk of mankind almost entirely. Indeed, he is completely modern only when he has come to the very edge of the world, leaving behind him all that has been discarded and outgrown, and acknowledging that he stands before a void out of which all things may grow.
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Only the person who has outgrown the stages of consciousness belonging to the past and has amply fulfilled the duties appointed to them by the world can achieve a full consciousness of the present. To do this, they must be sound and proficient in the best sense —someone who has achieved as much as other people, even a little more. They must be proficient to the highest degree, for unless they can atone by their creative ability for their break with tradition, they are merely disloyal to the past.” ~ Carl Jung, (The Jung Reader, David Tacey)
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I was going to start this post by gently reminding you that I'm not crazy. But by the time I have to remind people of that sort of thing it's usually too late. (Wow that made it sound like I always have to tell people I'm not crazy. But I really don't. I mean it happens, certainly, but barely more than whatever the normal amount is.) Anyway, one day I went to the Long Beach Ice Company to buy a brick of dry ice. Then I took it home, smashed it up and stuck it inside of a boiling tea kettle. So in order, these photos are: 1. My dog, Martin, sniffing the dry ice as it leaks out of the tea kettle onto my living room floor. 2. Martin becoming uneasy as the dry ice bubbles out more violently. 3. Martin taking a seat in his special chair to observe the screeching kettle from a distance. 4. Martin deciding the kettle is a major threat and attempting to save my life by attacking the plumes of dry ice vapor. 5. A top-down picture of the vapor bubbling out onto my glass coffee table (while Martin paces nervously out-of-frame). 6. The same tea kettle with one of my hats placed on top of it for some reason (Martin is now becoming worried about my mental health). 7. Three elephant figurines basking in the flood of dry ice vapor (Martin staring at me aghast as though fully convinced I am insane, even though I am not). 8. The same situation as the last photo, but now with a red light under the table (still out of frame: Martin attempting to dial 911). 9. The whole ensemble arranged on a protruding book on my bookshelf (Martin now pounding the Siri button and attempting to bark voice commands). 10. Much later: A photo of Martin yawning and fantasizing about having a different owner because this whole tea kettle situation has forced him to examine his personal boundaries. Wow, I just realized I sometimes write like a person with a broken backspace key. Except that my backspace key works fine. I mean I'm not sure, since I've never tried it, so it's still brand new. In fact it probably works TOO well. Yeah I'd better just leave it alone. (Remember: Not crazy.) at Downtown Long Beach

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here is my Angels in America inspired post. this was the most incredible production I have ever seen in my life. I cried so much throughout the entire show and am so hoping I get to see it again. Andrew Garfield was mesmerizing, Nathan Lane was brilliant, @thebethmalone gave me CHILLS, and Denise Gough just ripped my soul apart. So thankful and blessed I got to see this production. Thank you so much @angelsbway#morelife#weareallangels#angelsinamerica#thegreatwork

Terrifying cats and unsuspecting members of the public alike with my amazing parkour skills...
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About 4 years ago I bought an online #parkour course off of the inimitable @tappbrothers. Unfortunately, I never got passed the first week due to some of the training days taking in excess of 2 hours each (I'm quite lazy). Now I'm trying out a new strategy: slowly work my way through the entire program with short (very short 10-20 minute) workouts daily. It's taken 2 weeks to almost finish day 4, but I'm getting there 💪 Slow and steady wins the race 🐢

“Although Alchemy speaks through allegories, it cannot be understood by the symbolists, because Alchemy is not a cryptography to decipher, but a gift from the Divine, as its adepts (Students & Initiates) state. We know today the "modus operandi” of this millenarian science that is able to transform the vulgar man of the Earth into an authentic Solar Man.
The science of Alchemy has its rules and its objective principles, the same as the other sciences. The thing is that the principles of the “hermetic art” are not known by the scientists of the materialistic science. In order to know the Hermetic art, it is necessary to study the Alchemist symbolism, which is connected with the Hebraic Kabbalah. Thus Alchemy and Kabbalah go together forming a doctrinaire whole that can only be understood by those who really long to know the reality, by those who long to know that which is divine and inhabits in the depths of the human creature. Alchemy cannot be studied from an intellectual point of view. A critical spirit connected with a serious and conscious mystique is required, and nowadays this is only found in Gnosis.“ #Esoteric#philosophy#consciousness#HermesTrismegistus#Kybalion#Hermetic#mysterytradition#higherknowledge#Occult#spirit#soul#wisdom#Thoth#Tehuti#knowledgeofself#temetnosce#thegreatwork#emeraldtablet#mind#dream#freedom#knowledge#self#Mystic#gnosis#Initiate#Alchemy#Hermetica#Truth